Month: August 2026
Jim Goad, In Memoriam
Ironically I was walking through a cemetery a few weeks ago when I looked at my phone and saw Greg Johnson’s piece about Jim Goad’s death. The Redneck Manifesto still ranks as one of my favorite books, somewhere in my personal canon alongside Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. Abbey actually appears in The Redneck Manifesto’s bibliography. I won’t do a full rundown of Jim’s influence…
LINKS: Sin as Punishment; Biosecurity; Second Fathers
Alan Moore’s Best Writing Advice — Start with Short Stories: “…he said that one of young writers’ biggest temptations today is the idea that they’ll create a gigantic epic that will end up as a movie or TV franchise, making them rich and famous. And that’s a terrible way to learn the craft.” Conditions of…